Fusion Jazz Quotes

Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

Jazz music is the power of now.

'This Is My Rifle' is a kind of tribute to Al Di Meola.

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

Journey was a jazzy jam band when they first started. They were very out there.

Jazz is the music of the body.

Jazz to me is a living music.

I have always loved jazz music and as a teen growing up in New York City and then later on as an adult have great memories of the jazz clubs that were all located on 52nd Street. I still catch as many jazz shows as I can when I am in New York. And when I perform, I have my jazz quartet by my side. Jazz musicians keep things spontaneous and very "live," which is the way I like to perform.

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.

I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything

As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars.

I love jazz. So to me, there are two main types of jazz. There's dancing jazz, and then there's listening jazz. Listening jazz is like Thelonius Monk or John Coltrane, where it's a listening experience. So that's what I like; I like to make stuff that you listen to. It's not really meant to get you up; it's meant to get your mind focused. That's why you sit and listen to jazz. You dance to big band or whatever, but for the most part, you sit and listen to jazz. I think it comes from that aesthetic, trying to take that jazz listening experience and put it on hip-hop.

I've never been a jam-band sort of musician.

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

Thundercat put me on to George Duke.

Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.

Today Jazz music is performed & listened to by people of all ethnicity, backgrounds, ages & creeds.

That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.

I've been listening to Herbie Hancock forever. He's gone through so many transitions, even before bringing hip-hop to the forefront with 'Rockit' and everything.

For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.

We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.

My dad listened to a load of jazz - Mahavishnu, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock.

Even back when I played 'straight-ahead,' I mixed it up. I played some free-form, classical adaptations, solo flute stuff. It was New Age in its own way.